Director, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Jewish General HospitalJames McGill Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill UniversityDr. Laurence J. Kirmayer is James McGill Professor and Director of the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University and Editor-in-Chief of Transcultural Psychiatry. He directs the Culture and Mental Health Research Unit at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, where he conducts research on mental health services for immigrants and refugees, psychiatry in primary care, the mental health of indigenous peoples, and the anthropology and philosophy of psychiatry.

He founded and directs the annual Summer Program and Advanced Study Institute in Cultural Psychiatry at McGill. He co-directs the National Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research. He co-edited the volumes, Current Concepts of Somatization (American Psychiatric Press), Understanding Trauma: Integrating Biological, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives (Cambridge University Press), Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada (University of British Columbia Press) and Encountering the Other: The Practice of Cultural Consultation (Springer SBM).